John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this …

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts …

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.